Hi community members,

The Yunhan/FOLIO China Community will host a national conference at Shanghai Library East from March 1-3, 2023. The conference will be held in hybrid mode. Over 300 hundred people registered to attend the onsite conference.

The conference is organized by the Academic Research Committee of Library Society of China and Shanghai Library Society, is supported by Shanghai Library and Shanghai Jiaotong University Library, and is sponsored by Jiangsu Jiatu Network Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai RFID Intelligence Digital Technology Co.,Ltd., and Beijing Wanfang Data Co., Ltd. Shanghai Library, Shanghai Jiaotu University Library, and Jiangsu Jiatu Network Technology Co., Ltd. are the three co-founders of the Yunhan/FOLIO China Community and have also been supporting partners of the FOLIO community for many years.

The theme of the 3-day conference is "Smart, Inclusive, and Exceeding: Towards Metaverse Library 3.0".

Day One features an open ceremony, organizers' welcome speeches, a certificate awarding ceremony, three keynote speeches in the morning, and an exhibit and several presentations in the afternoon. Keynote speaker Wu Jianzhong, Librarian of the University of Macau and former Director of Shanghai Library (2002-2016), will talk about the three challenges that China's library industry is facing in order to achieve high-quality development. Xiaolin Zhang, Researcher of Center for Documentation and Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Invited Professor of ShanghaiTech University, will share his thoughts on knowledge, scenarios, and intelligence. Xi Zhu, Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) School of Science and Technology, will discuss the changing roles of libraries from document management to knowledge discovery and technological innovation in the AI era, and will explore how to use AI technology to provide better services in teaching, scientific research and decision-making, and to create new knowledge management and sharing platforms. In the presentation sessions, Keven Liu (Wei Liu in Chinese), Deputy Director of Shanghai Library, will share insights into Meta and Library 3.0. The other presentations include Yajun Mao, Director of Capital Library of China, on library innovation services; Lauri McIntosh, Channel Sales Manager of EBSCO, on BiblioGraph; Xinwan Li, Dean of Shanghai Jiaotong University Library, on ChatGPT and intelligent library services; Jilong Zhang, Associate Dean of Fudan University Library, on digital libraries; and Xichen Zhao, University Librarian of Macau University of Science and Technology, on best practices of building smart libraries at MUST.

A 3-hour seminar is scheduled for Day 2. Gang Zhou, Project Manager of Shanghai Library and Member of Product Council of the FOLIO Community, will share the experiences of implementing the Yunhan/FOLIO platform at Shanghai Library. Representatives from the Yunnan development community will share the status of developing Yunnan Library Services Platform. Yunhan LSP is the Chinese version of FOLIO. Highlight of Day 2 will be the formal release of the Intelligent Library Standards and three white papers on Electronic Resource Management (ERM) requirements of the Chinese university libraries, the architecture of intelligent spaces, and online borrowing services respectively. This seminar will be facilitated by Hua Nie, Researcher of Peking University Library. Additionally, a meeting of the Expert Committee of the FOLIO China community and two exhibits are also scheduled for Day 2.

Day 3 will be training, focusing on the Yunhan LSP in the morning; while on Meta and Web 3.0 in the afternoon.

The Yunhan/FOLIO China Community